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BIO1610 GENETICS EXAM NEWEST 2025
ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE 100 QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+
Question: What is the amount of energy required to raise the
temperature of 1 gram of a substance (which might not be water) by one degree Celsius called?
ANSWER: Specific Heat
Question: Which of the following may be an example of X-
linked inheritance in human males?
ANSWER: the higher incidence of hemophilia in males than
females
Question: What is the distance between linked genes, which is
not an absolute, standardized unit of measurement but is relative and represents a 1% chance of recombination, called?
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ANSWER: Map Unit
Question: What are fragments of DNA from two different
species, such as bacterium and mammal, spliced together in a laboratory to create one single molecule called?
ANSWER: Recombination DNA
Question: Where does transcription occur in eukaryotes?
ANSWER: Nucleus
Question: Where does translation always begin?
ANSWER: Cytosol
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Question: What is the assembly of a protein on the ribosomes,
using mRNA to specify the order of amino acids, called?
ANSWER: Translation
Question: Where do coupled transcription and translation occur?
ANSWER: Prokaryotic Cells
Question: What are the smaller DNA pieces called that the
lagging strand is synthesized as?
ANSWER: Okazaki Fragments
Question: What are edited off the primary transcript in
eukaryotes?
ANSWER: Introns
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Question: What microevolutionary mechanism is usually
associated with small population size?
ANSWER: Genetic Drift
Question: Assuming complete dominance, how could you
determine the unknown genotype of a dominant phenotype individual?
ANSWER: Testcross
Question: When looking at Morgan's crosses, what term did we
use to indicate the most common phenotype found in nature for any given character?
ANSWER: Wild Type
Question: What are Francis Crick's three contributions to
biology and genetics?